Tort

[tɔːt] or [tɔrt]

Definition

(noun.) (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought.

Checker: Wayne--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Mischief; injury; calamity.

(n.) Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.

(a.) Stretched tight; taut.

Typist: Nigel

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. (Law.) Wrong, injury.

Checker: Salvatore

Definition

n. a term in the law of England including all those wrongs not arising out of contract for which a remedy by compensation or damages is given in a court of law: (Spens.) wrong injury calamity.—adj. Tor′tious (Spens.) wrongful injurious.

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